Gaza authorities report more than 41,900 dead and 97,300 injured after a year of Israel’s offensive

The death toll includes some 17,000 Palestinian children, including 171 babies and 710 under one year old.

Oct. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have denounced this Monday that the military offensive unleashed by Israel a year ago, after the attacks perpetrated on October 7, 2023 against Israeli territory, leaves already more than 41,900 dead, with women and children being “more than 60 percent of the dead”, and more than 97,300 injured.

The Gaza Ministry of Health has indicated in a statement on its Telegram account that the Israeli offensive leaves 41,909 “martyrs” and 97,303 injured, while it has once again denounced “the genocidal war” against Gaza, “one of the most atrocious chapters.” of Palestinian crime and bloodshed.

Gazan authorities indicated on Sunday that the Israeli attacks had left around 17,000 children dead, including 171 babies and 710 under one year old, and put the number missing at around 10,000, leading to fears that the death toll could be much higher. .

In addition, he stated that more than 900 families had suffered the loss of all their members, causing “their elimination from the civil registry” and put the death toll of hunger in the enclave at 36 this year, in which 175 journalists and 85 have also died. members of the Civil Protection teams due to Israel’s attacks.

Regarding material damage, the press office of the Gaza authorities explained that 204 government buildings have been destroyed, in addition to 125 schools and universities, 814 mosques, three churches, 19 cemeteries and 150,000 housing units.

For this reason, the Gaza Ministry of Health has regretted that “the criminal occupier (…) has intensified its bombings against the health system, completing what the occupation has caused after 18 years of siege”, before highlighting that Israel “deprives deliberately” the population from “having even the slightest opportunity to receive treatment” by blocking the delivery of medicines in the enclave and preventing the movement of patients.

Likewise, he stressed that Israeli troops “have made medical teams a target for their murders and arrests” and has detailed that among the dead are 986 health workers, four of whom have died “inside Israeli prisons”, while More than 310 have been detained by Israeli forces.

“Statistics documented after a year of extermination war against Gaza indicate that the occupation has focused on destroying the health system, with about 65 percent of health facilities having been attacked and with the rest operating partially and at 300 percent occupancy, especially in intensive care units and infirmaries,” he detailed.

In addition, he stated that this is added to “the lack of drinking water, the destruction of infrastructure and sewage networks and the prohibition of entry to sterilization materials and washing materials, which has caused the spread of epidemics and diseases such as viral hepatitis, poliomyelitis and skin diseases.

“These systematic and permanent attacks against the health system have deprived more than two million people in Gaza of receiving basic health care,” he said, while specifying that among these people more than 50,000 pregnant women and 12,000 cancer patients. “Hundreds of dialysis patients have died due to lack of care,” he said.

For this reason, he has stressed that “it is estimated that many more have fallen martyrs due to lack of health services”, which is why he has once again called on the international community to pressure Israel to “stop its aggression and its “killing machine” and allow thousands of wounded to leave Gaza to be transferred to specialized hospitals abroad.

“The Gaza Ministry of Health also renews its demand to all relevant parties to find mechanisms that guarantee the arrival of medical supplies to all hospitals, without restrictions, and that the entry of medical delegations is allowed,” he stressed, at the same time that has shown its willingness to “continue carrying out its humanitarian mission, regardless of the sacrifices.”

The offensive was launched by Israel after the aforementioned attacks on October 7, 2023, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 250 kidnapped, according to Israeli authorities. Added to these tolls are nearly 725 Palestinians killed at the hands of Israeli security forces and in attacks perpetrated by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since that date.